Marta Howell BL Mother of Pearl Larimar Pendant #11

I am Proud to Offer You this Contemporary "Gifts from the Sea"™ Line of Exclusive Designs Created by Hawaiian Jewelry Artist Marta Howell®. Contemporary and Bold, Not for the Timid.Ever Know That Feeling When You See Something at a Moment's Glance and You do a Double-take Second Look...

I am Proud to Offer You this Contemporary "Gifts from the Sea"™ Line of Exclusive Designs Created by Hawaiian Jewelry Artist Marta Howell®. Contemporary and Bold, Not for the Timid.Ever Know That Feeling When You See Something at a Moment's Glance and You do a Double-take Second Look, Because Your Eyes Just Didn't Believe What they Saw. This Was the Exact Effect Felt When I Came Across Marta's Gorgeous Collection of Unique and Superbly Crafted Art Pieces! Exquisitely Beautiful, Each and Every Piece is a Show Stopper! From Her Heart to Yours Comes This Beautiful Gift from the Sea! I Truly Apologize to Her as My Pictures Do Not Best Reflect the True Appearance and Beauty of Her Wonderful Treasures as a Gifted Artist. All of Marta's Shell Pieces Are Geographically-Selected as She Possesses a Keen Understanding of How Each Region's Shell Can Display Certain Qualities With Respect to Their Luster, Colors and Iridescent Characteristics. All of Marta's Calibrated and Uniform-Sized Semi-Precious Gemstones are "A+" Grade or Better as She Pursues to Achieve the Highest Quality of Standards in Each of Her Art Pieces Made. The Tradename, Trademark, Logo, and Exclusive Jewelry Designs Are All Copyright Properties of Marta Howell Studio®.

A gentle, soft, sky blue Caribbean stone found in only one unique location in the entire world, the Dominican Republic. Can you just appreciate the beautiful Caribbean Sea color found within this Larimar Stone Pendant. What makes this Larimar Stone even more special is that each piece of jewelry will have its own unique signature and personality! This is because there are no two pieces of stone that will be the same...ever! They are all unique in their own way. You can find Larimar Stones with higher blue tones, some with a green tone and most will have a white shade like that of the clouds reflecting off the Caribbean Sea. Truly a Caribbean treasure...just gorgeous! Its blue charm and rare quality will make an everlasting impression on you and having this jewel will forever remind you of the turquoise waters of this far paradise. The Stone is excellent for jewelry use, it is equal in hardness to Quartz and Amethyst, and it will not scratch easily since it is quite durable. The combined materials in the Art Piece Create the Gorgeous Pendant Design.

NOTES: The Design in the Item's Picture/s is the One You Will Receive. The Item is Much Better Than Pictured and Does Not Reflect the True Beauty of the Brilliant Mother of Pearl Shell's Iridescent Hues, Shades, and Color Reflections, or the Larimar Stone's Tone and Color Patterning. Please State Your Optional Choice From One of Three Necklace Lengths (16", 18" or 20") in an Email or With a Note in Your Payment, Otherwise You Will Be Shipped the 18" Long Leather Necklace as the Default Size. Brand New, Never Used Hawaiian-Designed Silver, Mother of Pearl and Larimar Pendant With Necklace. 100% Solid .925 Sterling Silver (Not Plated, Not Bonded, Not Filled) Pendant With Natural Australian Black-Lip Mother of Pearl Shell and Natural Dominican Republic Larimar Stone and Black Leather Cord Necklace.

- Symbolism: Benefits from Larimar allows accessing the power of the sacred feminine, amplifies clear communication, opens the ability to speak from the heart, supports a calm and relaxed sense of being, brings confidence. Blue is the color of the element of Water. It symbolizes the ocean, sleep, the sky, and twilight. Pacifying, peaceful, refreshing and calming, it denotes stability and harmony. Blue is associated with healing, psychism, patience, confidence, happiness and loyalty. The ancient Egyptian pharaohs wore blue for protection against evil.
- Design: Contemporary Tri-Oval With Round Larimar Stone #11; Cutout, Raised Bezel Gemstone Design, Hand-Cut and Hand-Shaped Shells and Larimar Stone, Rolling Convex (Dome) to Concave (Sunken) Shaped Shell, Rare and Natural Round Cabochon-Cut Larimar (Not Treated, Not Enhanced), Natural Shell (Not Treated), Extra High Polished Iridescent Shell, Smooth Surface Polished Larimar Stone, Smooth Silver High Polish Finish, Choice of Leather Cord Necklace Lengths With Sterling Silver Closure.
- Designer: Marta Howell Studio®, O`ahu, Hawai`i. All Desgins Are Copyrighted.
- Color/s: Shell: (Silver-Gray Color Background With Iridescent Flashes of Pink, Rose, Lime, Green, Orange, Teal, Violet, Royal and Navy Blue Overtones); Larimar Stone: Light-Medium Sky Blue With Medium Blue and White-Blue Patches.
- Measures: Overall Incl. Gemstone Approx. Just Over 1 1/8" Widest X 2 1/8" Long Incl. Bail, 6mm Wide X 10mm Long Bail Opening.
- Larimar Gemstone: Round Cabochon Stone Approx. Just Over 3/8" Round X Just Under 3/16" Deep; Total Carat Weight: Approx. 3.04 Cts Total Larimar; Gem Grade: Very Good (The Grading of Larimar Does Not Use the Same Methods For Grading Colored Semi-Precious Gemstones). There are no such lettering grades used for Larimar, the Terms Poor, Fair, Good, Very Good and Fine Are Used. Quality grading is according to coloration. White being a low quality. High quality jewelry utilizes stones between sky-blue and volcanic blue. Greenish colorations are not well regarded, unless the green is intense. Red colored inclusions in Larimar indicate traces of iron. There is no one particular factor that determines the grade; it is a combination of factors. With Larimar, perhaps more than with any other gemstone, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some prefer the very light blues, others prefer stones tending toward green, and while others prefer Larimar with mineral spots, some prefer no patterning at all. The stone you like the most is the stone that's right for you, regardless of its perceived grade and quality. Cutting Larimar is also very costly. There is a tremendous loss of material when specific shapes are created. Therefore, a precisely cut bead or a perfectly shaped cabochon or pendant is more expensive than a freeform one. Source/Notes: Mined From the Filipinas Larimar Mine in Los Chupaderos, Dominican Republic. These Rare Semi-Precious Gemstones Were Intricately Hand-Cut and Polished in the Dominican Republic Where Expertise of Cutting and Polishing Techniques For Larimar is Best Supported by Local Skilled Craftsman.
- Size: Necklace is Approx. 18.0" Long (Default Length); Optional Resize Lengths in 16" or 20" Available Upon Request.
- Weight: Approx. 10.4 grams Total (Without Necklace).
- Features: This Beautiful Hand-Made Hawaiian Designed Sterling Silver Pendant is Superbly Hand-Crafted. This Labor-Intensive Design Features aTri-Oval Shaped Australian Black-Lip Mother of Pearl Shell. Anchored at the Bottom Center is a Single, Round Cabochon-Cut Piece of Natural (Not Treated, Not Color Enhanced) Larimar Stone. The Shell and Larimar Are High Detailed With Enhanced Polishing Techniques to Bring Out the Best Luster, Patterns, and Colors. The Shell's Satin Patina Has a 3-Dimensional Quality, and at Every Turn of This Piece You See a Rainbow of Colors Traversing Across its Face. The Focal Point Features a Bezel-Framed, Round Cabochon-Cut Larimar Stone. The Mother of Pearl Shell and Larimar Stone Are Each Individually Encased in Hand-Shaped Solid .925 Sterling Silver Frames, Which Conforms to the Exact Cut, Shape, and Sides of the Pieces Using a Very Strong 40-Strand Sterling Silver Wire. The Focal Portions of This Pendant Are Attached to an Included (Free of Charge) 1.9mm Thick, Black European Leather Cord Necklace Crafted of the Best Quality. The Necklace's Closure Incorporates a Strong, Sterling Silver Lobster-Claw Clasp for Added Security. This Pendant Features a Generous-Sized Bail to Accommodate Several Bold Round or Wide Flat Omega Chains as Desired. A Unique, One of a Kind Piece that Exudes Pride of Ownership! Retails for $285 and Higher in Fine Waikiki Shops, and Inter-Island Boutiques and Shopping Mall Jewelry Stores.

About Marta: Staff Writer, Honolulu Advertiser - "A mollusk is not a pretty thing. At least from the outside. They are usually gray and craggy and covered with little craters that look like out-of-control warts. Of all the creatures in the ocean, a mollusk seems unlikely to be the one that would normally inspire art...until its shell is opened. Opening a mollusk can be like prying open a treasure box long hidden in the depths of the ocean. Iridescent colors explode from the shell, from pale gray-blues and soft golden tones to brilliant pinks, purples and greens. Now these Gifts from the Sea™ are being used to create one-of-a-kind wearable art by one of Hawai`i's jewelry designers Marta Howell of Kailua, on the Island of Oahu, Hawai`i." She begins with Mother-of-pearl, sometimes combining it with Corals and Semi-precious Stones such as Tourmaline, Peridot, Amethyst, Blue Topaz, Citrine and Garnet, as the muses move Her. David, her husband taught her silversmithing, and she uses silver to bind the pieces together. The effect is often of a silver frame around the shells and stones. Marta stated, "I see art in every piece of shell. It's a never-ending adventure. Taking layers from the shells was like finding a new world within the shell." Howell said the temperature of the ocean, age of the mollusk and algae and seaweed they eat help determine the colors the shells take on. Those from Sumatra have a golden hue; from Norway, blue-pink; and New Zealand's are green-blue. Howell said one of the properties she likes best about working with mother-of-pearl is that there is a shade that works with every skin color. When she is designing, she has six muses in mind, each is based on a woman she has known in real life. They range from a graceful, feminine Hawaiian woman to a businesswoman "with attitude." About Blue Pectolite: The only source of Larimar in entire the world is from the Dominican Republic. Larimar (also lorimar) is a rare blue variety form of pectolite, an acid silicate hydrate of sodium, calcium and manganese. It is a beautiful gemstone with an extraordinary blue-green appearance similar to the color of the tropical Caribbean Sea. Although pectolite is found in many locations, none have the unique blue coloration of Larimar. This blue color, distinct from other pectolites, is the result of cobalt substitution for calcium. Its coloration varies from white, light-blue, sky blue, green-blue to deep blue. The deep blue variant is known as volcanic blue. The unique color makes it a fine semi-precious gemstone, that is much more expensive than other pectolites. It has a Mohs hardness between 4.5-7.0, an average S.G. of 2.7 and is used as an ornamental stone and semi-precious stone for jewelry. This unique gemstone sometimes may be mistaken for turquoise. Its luster is vitreous to silky, it’s transparent to translucent and it normally contains white streaks. This semi-precious stone conquers little by little an important recognition at an international level, because of its peculiarity and the rare beauty of the color it displays. Why is Larimar so expensive? For a very rare and very unique stone, it has beautiful colors and patterning, is excellent for jewelry because of its hardness, and it has very desirable metaphysical properties. The stone is also in high demand due to its rarity. The reason it is expensive is simply due to its very limited supply. It is a single source stone with a deposit in an area of less than one square mile. It is arduously mined in a remote mountain range manually by hand and takes a tremendous amount of effort to find. There are long periods of time when little or no stone is being excavated and more then 90% of the extracted stone is not suitable for Jewelry use. Perhaps the question should be why isn’t it more expensive? Larimar Care and Cleaning Tips: Larimar is a very hard and durable stone however certain chemicals such as those found in some cleaning supplies can "etch" the surface of the stone leaving it looking dull. Your jewelry can be maintained with a non abrasive jewelry cleaner, one that is rated for pearls, which will not damage your Larimar. We recommend purchasing a jewelry polishing cloth, they are quite inexpensive and will last a very long time. You can then buff each piece before you store it, this will remove any dirt and oils from your body, both of which will speed up the tarnishing process. Avoid exposing your Larimar jewelry to household detergents, especially bleach which can discolor the stone and the setting. Perfumes, cosmetics and hairspray can also damage jewelry as can chlorine in a swimming pool or hot tub. Store Larimar carefully, preferably in a separate jewelry compartment, a chamois bag or in tissue. Jewelry Handling: It is Not Recommended to Use Harsh Cleaners, Detergents, Soaps, Shampoos, Jewelry Cloths or Jewelry Liquids, Chemicals, Chlorine, Body or Tanning Lotions, Ultrasonic Cleaners, Tarnish Creams, Showering, Swimming in Pools or Hot Tubs or the Ocean With Natural Sea Shell and Gemstone Adorned Silver Jewelry. About Australian Black Lip Oyster (Pteria Penguin):Pteria is a genus of winged oyster closely related to Pinctata that also produces commercial quantities of pearls. Winged oysters are edible but unpalatable, and seldom produce precious pearls. It is a tropical species, with pearly interiors and long, wing-like projections of the hinge, have fragile shells. Winged oysters are found naturally on rocks and coral near channels and capes where the current runs fast and they attach themselves to the ocean bottom and to wharf pilings. Ptaria Penguin is a major source of Mabe Pearl production. Mabe pearls have a characteristic semispherical shape and unique rainbow-like luster and are a cultured half pearl, formed by inserting a half-sphere between the mantle and the shell. Since Mabe pearl oysters do not clump and their population is small, it is difficult to obtain a lot of mother of pearl material from these oysters. The Mabe pearl oyster, Pteria Penguin that grows up to 20-30 cm in diameter is also called “the penguin wing oyster” from its shape like a wing. They commonly display a silver color under the oyster muscle with a rich mauve, gold banding towards the black/brown outer-lip. All semispherical “half-pearls” used to be called “Mabe”, however, only pearls come from the Pteria penguin are called “Mabe pearls” now. The Mabe oyster produces a brilliant nacre with a rainbow-like spectrum of hues, and the Mabe pearls produced from this nacre, which sizes are 12-20mm in diameter, possess a uniquely penetrating brilliance, with hues ranging from light pink through deep rose-red to a "rainbow" pink. Habitat It can be found from the Red Sea in the east to the western tropical Pacific and from the southern islands of Japan in the north to the southern waters of Australia. The Black Lip Oysters’ “mother of pearl” inner shell has beautiful iridescent qualities. The Mother of Pearl shell is surface polished to display a beautiful shine along with its natural rainbow colored hues and iridescence. Gorgeous and radiant in appearance! Mother of Pearl Care: Use mild soaps and water on mother of pearl to clean it, and avoid storing it with jewelry which may scratch it and wear away the luminous layers of nacre. Purchase Assurance of Quality: As Each of These Pendants Are Intricately Hand-Made Using Natural Mother of Pearl Shells and Natural Larimar Stone, Each is a One-of-a-kind, Unique Design That You Will Cherish for Your Very Own! Ships in a Gift Box With and Exclusive Marta Howell Gift Pouch. Makes a Great Gift or Treat Yourself to Start or Add to Your Collection of Fine Mixed Shell and Gemstone Jewelry Designs. Stamped .925 with Artist's Hallmark for Assurance Marks of Solid .925 Sterling Silver Purity and Quality Jewelry Art Created by Marta Howell. Hand-made with "aloha". Certain High-Value Items Will Have Required Shipping Insurance to Protect Your Order’s Cost Value Against Shipping That is Lost, Stolen or Damaged by Others and Will Already Be Included in the FLAT Rate Shipping Cost. Please Understand We Should Not Be Held Responsible For Delivery Time Once Your Order Has Shipped as We Are Not the Individuals Delivering Your Package. We Ship Twice a Week on Wednesdays and Saturdays; and Daily During Traditional or Honoring Observance Holidays and the Christmas Shopping Season. USPS Express Delivery (2-Days Guaranteed) From Hawai`i for All Addresses. Please Feel Free to Contact Us With Any Questions. Live Aloha!

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